“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.